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Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light. This book situates Satie's work within the context and sonic environment of contemporary Paris.
A delightful and informative take on Erik Satie's life and works...Potter's biography presents readers with a cultural history: they will revel in learning more not only about Satie and his music, but also about fin-de-siècle Paris's sonic environment, artistic movements and social trends, which she argues shaped Satie's music... A book that will certainly delight a broad range of readers, from music scholars and French historians, to those in the general public interested in discovering more about one of France's most enigmatic composers.
Potter's book is well written and she supports her knowledge of Satie with her fluency in the French language, as a result of which she is able to discuss the nuances and double entendres of Satie's texted piano works. . . . The primary sources Potter found, and includes in her study, are reason enough to read this book. . . . [A]n important contribution indeed.
Potter's book is especially timely, participating in the recent trend of rethinking early twentieth-century composers . . . within their historical and social contexts. . . . [Her] writing is accessible and engaging. . . . [P]rovides a fresh and nuanced take on a popular but complicated composer. It would be a welcome addition to any library.
Essential reading.
No academic library should be without it and both Satie's admirers and detractors will find many thoughtful insights.
Potter's scholarly and engaging book brings out the ways in which Satie's music...absorbed the 'sonic environment' of the city.
This is a fascinating tour of Satie's richly bizarre Parisian environment, offering new and valuable insights for both listeners and performers.
Anyone seriously interested in Satie needs this well-produced, reasonably priced, lucidly expressed and impressively researched book.
[A] welcome new study.
'This brilliant and accessible new study of Satie gets right inside his contemporary Parisian world, relating its complex and fast-changing artistic climate to scientific and social issues, and most importantly to mechanical and street music. Dr Potter's painstaking and wide research brings many new discoveries too, and leaves us with a clearer vision of what the enigmatic Satie was really about.
CAROLINE POTTER is Visiting Reader in French Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. With Boydell she published Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and his World (2016) which was named Sunday Times classical music book of the year.
A delightful and informative take on Erik Satie's life and works...Potter's biography presents readers with a cultural history: they will revel in learning more not only about Satie and his music, but also about fin-de-siècle Paris's sonic environment, artistic movements and social trends, which she argues shaped Satie's music... A book that will certainly delight a broad range of readers, from music scholars and French historians, to those in the general public interested in discovering more about one of France's most enigmatic composers.
Potter's book is well written and she supports her knowledge of Satie with her fluency in the French language, as a result of which she is able to discuss the nuances and double entendres of Satie's texted piano works. . . . The primary sources Potter found, and includes in her study, are reason enough to read this book. . . . [A]n important contribution indeed.
Potter's book is especially timely, participating in the recent trend of rethinking early twentieth-century composers . . . within their historical and social contexts. . . . [Her] writing is accessible and engaging. . . . [P]rovides a fresh and nuanced take on a popular but complicated composer. It would be a welcome addition to any library.
Essential reading.
No academic library should be without it and both Satie's admirers and detractors will find many thoughtful insights.
Potter's scholarly and engaging book brings out the ways in which Satie's music...absorbed the 'sonic environment' of the city.
This is a fascinating tour of Satie's richly bizarre Parisian environment, offering new and valuable insights for both listeners and performers.
Anyone seriously interested in Satie needs this well-produced, reasonably priced, lucidly expressed and impressively researched book.
[A] welcome new study.
'This brilliant and accessible new study of Satie gets right inside his contemporary Parisian world, relating its complex and fast-changing artistic climate to scientific and social issues, and most importantly to mechanical and street music. Dr Potter's painstaking and wide research brings many new discoveries too, and leaves us with a clearer vision of what the enigmatic Satie was really about.
CAROLINE POTTER is Visiting Reader in French Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. With Boydell she published Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and his World (2016) which was named Sunday Times classical music book of the year.